Croft v. Rains
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cherokee. The plaintiff (appellee) in March, 1849, brought his action of trespass to try title to a tract of land containing nine hundred and sixty acres, described in his petition by a reference to.the comity map and the adjoining surveys.
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Appeal from Cherokee. The plaintiff (appellee) in March, 1849, brought his action of trespass to try title to a tract of land containing nine hundred and sixty acres, described in his petition by a reference to.the comity map and the adjoining surveys. In an amended petition, filed in September, 1S50, he alleged that at the date of the trespass complained of he had an undivided interest of six hundred and forty acres in the tract of land containing nine hundred and sixty acres, described in his original petition, and surveyed upon the head-right certificate of Jacob Garrett in 1841. The…
1Opinion of the Court
■Wheeler, J.
The assignment of errors and the argument of counsel for the appellant bring hr question the rulings of the court upon the sufficiency of the petition and' the admissibility of evidence and in the instructions to the jury.
*262It is objected to tlio petition that it is not sufficiently certain in its description of tlie premises. If tlie original petition was obnoxious to this objection as amended, it certainly is not. Tlie field notes are set out and the premises described by reference to the adjoining surveys and to the map of the county, and it is not perceived in what respect…
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